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Tara Andrewson September 14, 2018

The first answer is correct ().
It is a social structure, practiced until the abolition of slavery in 1863.
The aristocracy was formed by the owners that the structure of the plantations, as well as entrepreneurs and other powerful. The middle class is composed of ordinary white citizens, like the small traders. The slaves were the base of this social pyramid, seen only as a good of capital, transactions for monetary values.
That was our social structure of the past and to the left a patriarchal and racist mentality in the world, unfortunately.